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Antiferromagnetic spintronics focuses on investigating and using antiferromagnets as active elements in spintronics structures. Last decade advances in relativistic spintronics led to the discovery of the staggered, current-induced field in…

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Antiferromagnetic materials with spin splitting have attracted considerable attention for their symmetry-enabled anisotropic spin textures that sustain a zero net magnetization, thereby facilitating efficient spin-current generation. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiabin Wang , Wancheng Zhang , Zhenhua Zhang , Rui Xiong , Yong Liu , Zhihong Lu

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a fundamental spin-dependent transport property that is widely used in spintronics. It is generally expected that currents carrying net spin polarization are required to drive the AHE. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Rui-Chun Xiao , Zi-An Wang , W. J. Lu , Y. P. Sun , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We formulate and quantify the spin-orbit torque (SOT) in intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator $\rm MnBi_2Te_4$ of a few septuple-layer thick, which exhibits conspicuous layer-resolved characteristics. Contrary to known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Junyu Tang , Ran Cheng

Supercurrent flow can induce a nonvanishing spin magnetization in noncentrosymmetric superconductors with spin-orbit interaction. Often known as the non-dissipative magnetoelectric effect, these are most commonly found at linear order in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-20 Jin-Xin Hu , Oles Matsyshyn , Justin C. W. Song

Altermagnets have recently emerged as promising materials for next-generation spintronic devices. For their device applications, realizing a single-domain configuration is essential but remains challenging. We theoretically consider…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Seungyun Han , Insu Baek , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Suik Cheon

We simulate scattering of electrons by a chain of antiferromagnetically coupled quantum Heisenberg spins, to analyze spin-transfer effects not described by the classical models of magnetism. Our simulations demonstrate efficient excitation…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Alexander Mitrofanov , Sergei Urazhdin

Topological quantum matter and spintronics research have been developed to a large extent independently. In this Review we discuss a new role that the antiferromagnetic order has taken in combining topological matter and spintronics. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 L. Šmejkal , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Altermagnetic order, characterized by the N\'{e}el vector, breaks time-reversal symmetry (TRS) even in the nonrelativistic limit. Although spin-polarized and anomalous transport phenomena emerge with this order, they are mutually…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-22 Zheyuan Liu , Shinichiro Asai , Shingo Takahashi , Hiraku Saito , Taro Nakajima , Takatsugu Masuda

Non-equilibrium spin-dependent transport in magnetic tunnel junctions comprising a ferroelectric barrier is theoretically investigated. The exact solutions of the free electron Schr\"odinger equation for electron tunneling in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 A. Useinov , A. Manchon

The effect of spin currents on the magnetic order of insulating antiferromagnets (AFMs) is of fundamental interest and can enable new applications. Toward this goal, characterizing the spin-orbit torques (SOT) associated with AFM/heavy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Egecan Cogulu , Hantao Zhang , Nahuel N. Statuto , Yang Cheng , Fengyuan Yang , Ran Cheng , Andrew D. Kent

The Edelstein effect is the origin of the spin-orbit torque: a current-induced torque that is used for the electrical control of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials. This effect originates from the relativistic spin-orbit…

Recent research works have shown that the magnetic order in some antiferromagnetic materials can be manipulated and detected electrically, due to two physical mechanisms: Neel-order spin-orbit torques and anisotropic magnetoresistance.…

Topological antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics is an emerging field of research, which involves the topological electronic states coupled to the AFM order parameter known as the N$\acute{\rm e}$el vector. The control of these states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Hiroyuki Takenaka , Shane Sandhoefner , Alexey A. Kovalev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Current-induced antiferromagnetic (AFM) switching remains critical in spintronics, yet the interplay between thermal effects and spin torques still lacks clear clarification. Here we experimentally investigate the thermally interplayed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Wenlong Cai , Zanhong Chen , Yuzhang Shi , Daoqian Zhu , Guang Yang , Ao Du , Shiyang Lu , Kaihua Cao , Hongxi Liu , Kewen Shi , Weisheng Zhao

Noncollinear antiferromagnets (nc-AFMs) have attracted increasing research attention in spintronics due to their unique spin structures and fascinating charge and spin transport properties. By using first-principles calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-28 Meng Zhu , Xinlu Li , Fanxing Zheng , Jianting Dong , Ye Zhou , Kun Wu , Jia Zhang

Using time-resolved X-ray magnetic linear dichroism in reflection, we provide a direct probe of the N\'eel vector dynamics in TmFeO$_3$ on a ultrafast timescale. Our measurements reveal that, following optical excitation, the N\'eel vector…

We study dynamics of antiferromagnets induced by simultaneous application of dc spin current and ac charge current, motivated by the requirement of all-electrically controlled devices in THz gap (0.1-30 THz). We show that ac electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

We observe strongly nonlinear spin dynamics in ferro-/antiferro-magnetic multilayers, controlled by the number of bilayers in the system, layer thicknesses, as well as temperature, peaking in magnitude near the N\'eel point of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 O. Busel , D. Polishchuk , A. Kravets , V. Korenivski

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are the key building blocks of high-performance spintronic devices. While conventional MTJs rely on ferromagnetic (FM) materials, employing antiferromagnetic (AFM) compounds can significantly increase…